Today, 17th August 2013, all Indonesian Citizen celebrate the Country’s 68th Independence Day. The following pictures were taken from the official ceremony of the flag raising which was taken place by the government of Bogor Municipality in commemoration the moments of the proclamation of the freedom.

No, roots come via England. But I don’t know much about the family before that. I suspect they might have been immigrants but don’t know for sure. I have several good friends that family history comes from the East Indies. We were all good friends before we discovered we had similar roots. It was amazing that without even knowing it we all gravitated towards one another. Says a lot about people in general.

I read a bit about the history of Indonesia and all the people who came through the region, from Africa, India, and China; to shape the amalgam of today’s population. The colonial period was a very ugly period, so glad those times are over….